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by Doctor Congo (Posted Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:13:42 GMT)<br/><blockquote><div><cite>Firkin wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>CJ+ wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>Doctor Congo wrote:</cite>Hmmmm a controversial diagnosis.....</div></blockquote><br />Expand plz?<br /><br />I thunk that "fibro" was doctor-ese for "I get that you're feeling like shit, but I haven't got a scooby. Fibromyalgia! Ta-da!"</div></blockquote><br /><br /><br />Yes please expand because I get the feeling my GP surgery all agree I'm not presenting as someone my age should but cannot for the life of them work out what is wrong and have resorted to something that vaguely fits. I've seen all the Doctors in the practice now Googling is a bad idea. All bloods so far, and there have been many taken have come back normal.<br /><br />It's the stiffness and difficultly walking that I find hardest. 6-8 Years ago I could go for walks, do DIY and housework without a second though. These days housework is done with a sit down in between but then also the extreme tiredness is really crap too as I just do not have the energy to do stuff.<br /><br />The other shit I can deal with as inconvenient as it can be. I cannot say how many times at work I just forget to do stuff that I pretty much now have to write down any requests that people make otherwise it's just gone and forgotten.<br /><br />Dr C I'd appreciate any comments on here or by pm <img src="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" alt=":)" title="smile" /></div></blockquote><br /><br />It’s controversial as it’s often a diagnosis of exclusion. There’s no test for it. They may have excluded neurological, psychological and rheumatological reasons and decide on fibromyalgia. It may well be that you have it and that, currently, we just don’t know how to look for it but all too often I’ve seen rheumatologists just label patients with the diagnosis, to give them a diagnosis rather than say they don’t know.in that regard it’s a bit like chronic fatigue syndrome.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=36713">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:13:42 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=36713#p1113901FF-Rail Travel Chathttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=40490#p1113897
by Pigeon (Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:46:29 GMT)<br/><blockquote><div><cite>span wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>Deuteronomy wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>Turntable wrote:</cite>Very good indeed MFD.<br />Pigeon, I was very impressed. I don't remember you ever doing one before?</div></blockquote><br /><br />Agreed on both counts.</div></blockquote><br /><br />Agreed, too!<br /><br />ManFro that was really great. <br /><br />And Pidge, blimey! I really enjoyed it and read it twice.<br /><br />Actually <span style="font-style: italic">all </span>of these just impress me. The people who do them all the time and are always great, and the people who do the occasional one and their greatness surprises me.</div></blockquote><br /><br />Gosh, ta, dudes and dudette <img src="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/blush.gif" alt=":blush:" title="blush" /><br /><br />No, I never did do one before, but having recently had a nasty temperature which set delirious and incoherent thoughts about the railway history of South Yorkshire spinning round and round my head, it more or less wrote itself when I saw the suggested subject <img src="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" alt=":)" title="smile" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=40490">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:46:29 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=40490#p1113897These pics are acehttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=39787#p1113896
by minimoog (Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:14:21 GMT)<br/>Superb - ta.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=39787">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:14:21 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=39787#p1113896Winter Olympics 2018http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=40482#p1113892
by minornut (Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:12:12 GMT)<br/>I’m just about managing to keep abreast of proceedings from my lounger on the beach in Antigua<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=40482">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:12:12 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=40482#p1113892IT bods - I need a 12 inch tablethttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=40491#p1113891
by CJ+ (Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:09:13 GMT)<br/>:rainierwolfcastle.jpg:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=40491">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:09:13 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=40491#p1113891Flash Fiction - Rail Travelhttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=40489#p1113882
by Paul H (Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:50:41 GMT)<br/>Every day as he walked to the train station he glanced at the window over the dry-cleaners shop. Today was no different but what he saw caused him to swear inside. The statue of Mary had been replaced by an ornate cross: there was product to collect. <br />So instead of taking his usual train to Zhukov Plaza he bought a return to Mayakhino and took a seat facing backwards in the last carriage. He put his briefcase on the table and took out his newspaper and pretended to read it. Exactly 10 minutes after departure he folded his paper and went to the toilet at the very back of the train. <br />He threw up. This was the third time this month. They were becoming too frequent. He would insist this time. Insist it was his last time.<br />Two minutes later he returned to his seat and though the casual observer might not have noticed he knew the newspaper was not the same one. The fold was different and it wasn’t perfectly aligned with the edge of his briefcase.<br />He sat down, picked up the paper and put it away in his briefcase. He didn’t know what was in the paper, didn’t really want to know. He did know that if he was caught it would be bad. Really, really bad. <br />All he had to do was get off at the next stop and return to the office in Moscow. <br />The train slowed down and he glanced at the sign - ‘Khoroshevo’ <br />The man in the seat behind him said to his wife ‘I wonder why we are stopping here…<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=40489">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:50:41 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=40489#p1113882Interesting or unusual cover versionshttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=10844#p1113780
by stuart (Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:39:20 GMT)<br/>Original video page: <a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCpXsDEjisw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCpXsDEjisw</a><br><div class="ytplayer" id="RCpXsDEjisw"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RCpXsDEjisw"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RCpXsDEjisw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=10844">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:39:20 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=10844#p1113780Triumph TR7 V8 Hill Climb carhttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=38637#p1113773
by Deuteronomy (Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:24:51 GMT)<br/><blockquote><div><cite>moleamol wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>Turntable wrote:</cite>I cant tell you how impressive these casual "So I welded etc etc" sound to us mere mortals. I love reading this.</div></blockquote><br />Totally agreed. And nice welding too, having a Landy and a Renault I could do with these skills. Well done Doots.</div></blockquote><br /><br />>blushes<<br /><br />Thanks guys<br /><br /><blockquote><div><cite>S1K wrote:</cite>Lightweight racing seats can be very expensive, the cheapest Tillet is £550 and that's for a fibreglass item, they go up to over £1200 for the carbon fibre seats. You can get a 4.7kg Kirkey aluminium item for £171 from Demon Tweeks though. You'd struggle to save 10 kilos much more cheaply than that.<br /><br /><!-- m --><a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="https://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/Product.do?method=view&n=1761&g=244222&p=13700&d=124&c=4&l=2">https://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/Product. ... 24&c=4&l=2</a><!-- m --></div></blockquote><br /><br />Whist a nice weight saving it's won't be that much as it'll still need the mounts - given how uncomfortable they are, I'm prepared to take the weight penalty. (I did look into them)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=38637">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:24:51 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=38637#p1113773An Old Man's Guide To Console Gaminghttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=38143#p1113728
by CJ+ (Posted Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:32:00 GMT)<br/><blockquote><div><cite>Dirk wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>Damien Thorn wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>Dirk wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>Disastrous wrote:</cite>He sounds like a virgin, in fairness.</div></blockquote><br />In fairness, if I didn't know better, from DaThos posts on the type and number of films he watches, plus his gaming, I would assume he was a virgin too</div></blockquote><br /><br />Bit rude!</div></blockquote><br />I guess it was, but not intentionally.<br /><br />Though a lot less rude than some people are to me fairly continuously.</div></blockquote><br />You do earn it, though.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=38143">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:32:00 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=38143#p1113728What have you watched on telly?http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=35228#p1113723
by Doctor Congo (Posted Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:19:48 GMT)<br/>After a slightly weird and incomprehensible start, I’m enjoying this a lot<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=35228">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:19:48 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=35228#p1113723Vespa 125 Nuova Restorationhttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=40404#p1113695
by Il Duce (Posted Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:52:57 GMT)<br/><blockquote><div><cite>Paul H wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><cite>Il Duce wrote:</cite>... and torqued them down.</div></blockquote><br /><br />Isn't that what the Samaritans do? Surely nuts are torqued up to a specific value, not down. <br /><br /><strike>Sorry</strike> for pedantry. Keep up the good thread!</div></blockquote><br /><br />Well you learn something new every day.<br />I learned today that I need to poke you in the eye with a torque wrench.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=40404">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:52:57 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=40404#p1113695What was the last film you watched?http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=19294#p1113684
by Käsemeister (Posted Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:09:57 GMT)<br/>Ha!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=19294">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:09:57 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=19294#p1113684Clothing Wants and Purchaseshttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=144&t=37923#p1113638
by Damien Thorn (Posted Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:34:23 GMT)<br/><blockquote><div><cite>manfromdelmonte wrote:</cite>eta: I'm sure it looks better on</div></blockquote><br /><br />On some people it does:<br /><br /><img src="https://46fjj12eeht73lsxezcqpvlt-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/behind-the-n-1-deck-coat-the-peacoats-rugged-successor-paul-newman-in-a-n-1-reminding-us-that-he-looked-amazing-in-everything.jpg" alt="Image" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=144&t=37923">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:34:23 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=144&t=37923#p1113638Trailers for Exciting Thingshttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3176#p1113535
by Deuteronomy (Posted Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:26:16 GMT)<br/><blockquote><div><cite>Damien Thorn wrote:</cite>There have been a bunch of Ready Player One trailers released so far, but this is the new, final one. You could go mad trying to spot and recognise all the references and characters from other stories:<br /><br />Original video page: <a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_eZxSYRhco">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_eZxSYRhco</a><br><div class="ytplayer" id="D_eZxSYRhco"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D_eZxSYRhco"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D_eZxSYRhco" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div></div></blockquote><br /><br />I like the look of that<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3176">Read Main Topic</a><hr />Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:26:16 GMThttp://www.chew-the-fat.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3176#p1113535